Espy-Steagall Connection

- Ted Thomas, e-mail to Hank Holman

So I am trying to figure out a potential connection to Major Espy. The closest I can find right now is Mary Francis Reynolds (1896-1989), who is the daughter of Laura Reynolds nee Steagall (1877-1951) and Dr John L. Reynolds (1870-1936).  She married Thomas Marion Espy, Jr (1895-1918), and later married Samuel Yancey Carroll (1890-1961).  Laura Reynolds nee Steagall is a sister to your grandfather.

Mr Thomas Marion Espy, Jr, KIA in WWI, was the son of Thomas Marion Espy, Sr and Anna Clark Farmer. See the attached JPG of the family tree.

I suspect both Thomas Marion Espy and Samuel Yancey Carroll are both closely connected to the families of Major Espy and Major Espy's grandfather, Major Carroll.

Besides the family tree JPG, I am attaching three articles on the Espy family and the Carroll family as references.

Ozark Activity

The Montgomery Advertiser

September 3, 1903

The Ozark Tribune

March 21, 1905

The Ozark Tribune

April 4, 1905

The Ozark Tribune

December 5, 1905

Present-Day

Early Mayors of Dothan

November 28, 1935

R. D. Carroll

Carroll Relative

David Matthews

David is a gg-gs of Major Carroll.

Goes like this:

David Warren Matthews born 1987

William Bush Matthews, Jr. born 1956

William Bush Matthew, Sr. (1931-2002) and Florence Carroll (1931-2003)

Samuel Jones Carroll (1889-1946)

Major Carroll (1851-1917)

Thanks to cousin Charles for this info!

"Pennie" (Carroll) Byrd

Isaac Wilbur  & Penelope Elizabeth (Carroll) Byrd

Find a Grave

"Pennie" was a sibling of my gg-grandfather, Major Carroll.  She was named after their mother.

Pennie named one of her boys Major.  So that's another one!  Click here to learn more about him.

Click here for an article written by a cousin from this Carroll-Byrd family line.

New Pulpit Chairs

The Southern Star

Sept. 21, 1939

First United Methodist Church

Ozark, Alabama

In 1897 the Ozark Methodist Church bought a little 100' by 100' lot from church-member Major Carroll, at the corner of East Avenue and Broad Street-the site of the church sanctuary today.

Click here for more of the church history.

Carroll Barnes Garner

The Ozark Tribune

September 13, 1904

The Birmingham News

1910

The Montgomery Advertiser

1910

The Montgomery Times

1910

Sept 13, 1904

The Southern Star

April 6, 1910

The Montgomery Times

March  2, 1917

source

Major Samuel Byrd

 

Find a Grave

Cousin Charles Loeffler e-mailed me recently:

Did you know that an older sister of your Major Carroll had a son she named Major Samuel Byrd?

The sister is Penelope Elizabeth Carroll (1842-1919), married to Isaac Wilbur Byrd.

Major Samuel Byrd (1873-1953) is at FindAGrave #44718502

Click here to learn more about "Pennie" Elizabeth (Carroll) Byrd.

Patriots

My goal is to share names of family who served in The Revolutionary War.  It will be a work in progress.

Solomon Stevenson, Sr.

Solomon Stevenson, Jr.

Lazarus Solomon

Samuel Espy

James Carroll

James Carroll Research

From Cousin Charles:

I recently found a very large pdf file primarily on the family of Peggy Carroll Langdon, sister of our James Carroll, born 1805.  I believe, but am not sure, that this file is from James Mark Valsame, a descendant of Peggy.

The following is an excerpt from page one of this file where Valsame tells of his research on the ancestry of our James Carroll, born 1765. 

 Here is the link and the excerpt:
 
The following came from a large PDF file (859 pages) found at
www.wemightbekin.com/Descendants%20of%20James%20Carroll.pdf
Notes for JAMES CARROLL:

From James Mark Valsame:

As I have mentioned before, James Carrell was NOT born in Ireland nor was he an immigrant.  He was also NOT the son of (probably fictional) couple Duncan McCarrell and Isabella

Dallas. For years, I and other researchers thought that James was the son of William Carrell
(d. 1811) of Johnston County, NC and later Columbia County, GA by his first wife Ann.
William's 1809 will named both sons James and William. However, research in GA records
has revealed that William's sons James and William actually did settle in Columbia County,
GA with their father William, and can not be identical with our ancestor James Carrell and his
known brother William Carrell (md. Sarah Stephenson, 2md. Piety Fluellin). James'
Revolutionary War Pension Application states that he lived in Cumberland (now Harnett)
County, NC before the war. There was a James Carrell who died in Cumberland (Harnett)
County, NC in 1778. He did not leave a will, but his estate papers show that Abraham Perry
was his administrator. Abraham Perry later served as a bondsman when William Carrell
married his second wife Piety Fluellin in 1797 in Johnston County. The estate papers of James
Carrell do not indicate whether he had a wife or any children. However, Dennis Carrell, a
likely brother of James and William, applied for a Revolutionary War Pension in Shelby
County, AL. He stated that he was born in 1766 in Wake County (not formed until 1771) and
that he had brothers who had also served in the war.

Dennis is the only other Carrell who lived in the area of Pleasant Grove Township in the 1790s
period besides James and William. He left Johnston County and migrated to Buncombe
County, NC, and then Tennessee and later Shelby County, Alabama. In Buncombe County,
NC, there is a deed in 1815 where Dennis Carrell had conveyed land to his step-father
Abraham Perry, suggesting that Perry might have married James Carrell (d. 1778)'s widow.
All of the Carrell family descends from John Carrell, who acquired land on Swift Creek in
Johnston County as early as 1752. He died sometime in 1762, and in 1763, Elizabeth Johnson,
widow of Sill Johnson, assumed guardianship of his minor children. Elizabeth was likely a
Carrell herself, possibly John's younger sister or elder daughter. John's orphans were William,
John, Lucy, Susannah, and Benjamin. Court records later show that another possible child of
John was Absalom, a "base born (i.e. posthumous) child." William apparently came of age
right around 1763 as he had a land transaction shortly after being placed under guardianship in
1763. In the 1750s, John Carrell had had a land transaction with James Carrell. James Carrell
later was appointed guardian to John's daughter Lucy Carrell. In a later transaction involving
James Carrell in Cumberland County, Lucy Carrell served as a witness. This seems to prove
that James Carrell moved from Johnston County to Cumberland County. There are two
possibilities. One is that Lucy was a younger sister of James, who became her guardian; or
James was a possible relative of John Carrell and married John's daughter Lucy. Either way, it
is likely that James Carrell (d. 1778) of Cumberland (Harnett) County was either the son or
son-in-law of John Carrell (d. 1762) of Johnston County. Based on the evidence, it seems
likely that our ancestor James Carrell (1765-1834) and his brother William and likely brother
Dennis were children of James Carrell (d. 1778) of Cumberland County, and that after their
father's death, their mother (maybe Lucy or some other woman) married Abraham Perry. 

James Carrell (Carroll)

 James Carrell (1765 - 1834)

He was born in Johnston County, NC.

James Carrell and his wife Rhoda Stephenson were the parents of:

1. Margaret ["Peggy"] Carrell (1793-1836, married 1815, Britton Langdon)
2. John Carrell (1794-1861, married Martha ["Patsy"] Lassiter)
3. David Carrell (1800-1864, married firstly 1820, Mary Matthews; married secondly 1843, Mary Margaret Matthews; married thirdly 1857, Margaret ["Patsy"] E. Johnson)
4. Reuben Carrell (about 1803 - after 1860, married 1826, Margaret Matthews)
5. James Carrell (1805-1878, married about 1830, Penelope ["Pennie"] Kennedy)
6. Obedience ["Beedie"] Carrell (about 1811 - after 1860, married 1827, Elisha Lassiter)
7. Sarah Carrell (about 1816 - after 1880, married 1836, Levi Stephens)
8. Rhoda Carrell (1818-1896, married 1832, Joseph Matthews)
9. Rebecca Carrell (1822-1888, married 1837, Daniel Johnson)

His surname is also spelled Carroll in some documents.

There is no identifiable grave marker for James Carrell, but he is likely buried on his home plantation in the vicinity of Camp Branch near McGee's Crossroads, Pleasant Grove Township, Johnston County, N.C.

source

James Carrell and Rhoda (Stephenson) Carrell were my gggg-grandparents.  Their son, James (# 5 above), moved to Alabama.  Click here to learn more about him.

Irene (Carroll) Atkinson

The Southern Star

August 16, 1916

1917

Olive Irene (Carroll) Atkinson

Click here for more.

Kells Chilton Carroll, Sr.

Go to Find a Grave to learn more about him.

Town Of Ozark

The Birmingham News

January 22, 1922

Ozark, Alabama

Carrolls mentioned in article:

Sam J. Carroll

J. J. Carroll

L. P. Carroll

Cato Cader Carroll

Find a Grave

"Born in Dale County, Ala.  Died in Eufaula."

Cato served in the Confederate army.

He was a sibling of my gg-grandfather, Major Carroll.

Carroll Cousin

She was named one of “30 Women Who Shape the State” by AL.com and Birmingham Magazine in November 2016.  Click here for that article.

Mary Margaret Carroll is a 2019 Woman of Impact

Click here for another bio.

She descends from Major and Sarah (Branch) Carroll - our gg-grandparents.  Her great-grandfather, Sam Jones Carroll, and my great-grandmother, Emma (Carroll) Espy, were siblings.

Troy, AL

circa 1950s

Click here for the source of the aerial photos.  The site also has many vintage photos of Troy at ground-level.

Click here to learn about one of my relatives from Troy.

And click here to see area where Watt Espy once owned an antique shop.